Why join us?
Brainkind is a charity that aims to improve the lives of people with brain injuries in the UK. Our assessment centres, rehabilitation units and hospitals use expert neurorehabilitation to support people to regain the skills they have lost. We treat people with a range of brain injuries - sustained through trauma, illness, substance abuse and more - to recover and meet their personal goals. Our employees are incredibly passionate about the jobs they do - you will find a strong team spirit across our services and amazing colleagues who always pull together and look out for each other.

Therapy Assistant
Location: Neurological Care Centre - Lancashire
Salary: £12.96 to £14.09 (DOE)
Hours: 30 hrs per week, Part Time, Permanent

Main Purpose
To support the Therapy staff to provide high-quality holistic person-centred care and support to service users to reach their full rehabilitation potential.

Main Tasks and Responsibilities

• Together with the multi-disciplinary team responsible to ensure optimum cognitive, social, emotional, physical and functional needs are addressed.
• To support service users with cancer or other life-limiting illnesses, who have specialist palliative or neurological needs
• Responsible to ensure that the service users' individual rights and choices are actively promoted and supported, and their beliefs and preferences appropriately acknowledged
• Responsible to report status and variances in treatment and condition to the appropriate Therapist at the earliest opportunity and progress treatment as advised by the Therapist
• Where appropriate, responsible to review, order and fit equipment and work with service users and their carers/family to demonstrate its safe use, either in the centre or in service user's home
• Responsible to liaise with service users and family members to help complete forms, gather information and co-ordinate interventions
• To support the Therapy Team by completing administrative tasks such as gathering referrals, recording monthly activity data
• Responsible to collect, collate, evaluate and report information, maintaining accurate service user records in all formats, including written and electronic information systems
• Facilitating the safe and smooth running of the Service, the post holder is expected to maintain a safe working environment, maintain service user confidentiality, and occasionally taking on reasonable additional tasks

About You

• Educated to GCSE level or QCF Level II or equivalent in recognised health and social care qualifications.
• Understanding of health/social care sector work
• Experience of working with people in a care setting is desirable but not essential
• Skilled in interacting with all types of people
• Proven experience of working within a team
• Good communication skills, both verbal and written
• Able to work within policies and procedures
• An ability to work under supervision but also autonomously when appropriate
• An ability to prioritise, organise and coordinate daily workload
• An ability to build effective working relationships

Rewards

• A competitive rate of £12.96 to £14.09 (DOE)
• 33 Days AL
• Buy/Sell up to 5 days AL each year
• Simply Health Plan; helps to cover the cost of routine healthcare treatments. Further information at www.simplyhealth.co.uk/about-us
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Excellent training and support
• Company Pension
• Group life assurance
• Eye voucher scheme
• Long service and staff awards
• Free parking

We also put a big focus on employee wellbeing and support. It matters to us that you feel at your best. Career development is a priority. We will ensure you get all the training and learning opportunities you need to achieve your goals.

To join our friendly team, apply through our website.

Please note we will be shortlisting and interviewing candidates on a rolling basis until the role is filled, therefore we recommend applying as soon as possible. All successful candidates are subject to compliance checks including 3 years of checkable references and DBS/PVG checks. Brainkind are a Disability Confident Employer. As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy. Brainkind is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive organisation.